“Sleeping?” Part 2

“Sleeping?” Part 2
11x 14 pens & ink with water color,
At this time a computer was considered a dirty word I had very little use for one I didn’t even own one. As I mentioned in an earlier post what I was doing was rebuilding or relearning my craft I already had the job I was not looking to build a new portfolio.
Just getting down to basics given my self challenges working off themes that I enjoyed,
Example “Sleeping?” based on “The Hobbit” by J. R. R. Tolkien Smaug sleeping in dungeon-hall. The Scales took me about four and a half hours to ink alone It took me about two weeks from beginning to end to complete the piece.
Water color takes time to dry and some times I needed to let it dry over night just to see what the final color would look like. But I think you can tell that the work is starting to come together that I’m connecting the dots so to speak It takes me time to dig threw sketch books to find the art work I’m looking for but I’ll try to find some of the in-between work after Part 1 and this post we will call Part 2

My new start part 1

I decided to give a glimpse of some of my past work and instead of cramming into one post I'll break it up into as many as needed.
By the end of 2003 my life was changing for the better. Certain goals were met, and I was starting to think on what's next?
At my niece birthday party at a family type restaurant, I was sitting with my father & mother waiting for my brother & his wife and the two kids to arrive. We all seemed to forget a card how this happened I don't know. But what is a birthday without a card? I took the paper place mat grabbed the crayons off the table and put together a card for the three of us to sign.
My father suggested maybe I should try greeting cards. The idea of art was already on my mind, and it stayed there a little longer until a friend & coworker was talking to me about stories he had written and wanted them illustrated for kids, well as you can guess I reminded him I went to school for this kind of stuff and maybe we should get together and talk.

He told me once he did some rewriting we would get together. But it was ten years since I did anything seriously and it took me time to get back into the grove. My Avatar was one of my fist successes. I went out bought some paper, brushes and other goodies and started working. I love Fairytale, magic, dragons, and so on. I started using them in my work. This illustration was one of the earlier successes I had to relearn patience and in art it is needed I was working in pen & ink with watercolor as I post some more illustrations over time you will see that I become more involved with the work, adding more texture. It took a year for the meeting to take place but that will be for another time.

Valentine's day

Happy Valentine's Day